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Elementary Substitute School Nurse JobID: 637

+ Position Type:

Student Support Services/ School Nurse

+ Date Posted:

12/12/2024

+ Location:

Boone Community School District

Boone Community School District's mission is to foster academic and extracurricular excellence through the Portrait of a Graduate pillars. We are committed to providing every student with rigorous and enriching educational opportunities within a safe, supportive, and collaborative environment. Our goal is to nurture the development of productive, caring, and engaged citizens who are equipped to thrive in a dynamic world. We are not only committed to being an equal opportunity employer, but also actively strives to create a diverse workforce that reflects the demographics of its students and community, prioritizing a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills within its teams. Expect the BEST...Achieve SUCCESS!

Title: School NurseReports To: Building PrincipalWork Year: 180 Days Pay Period: Direct Deposit on the last day of the month

EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:

+ Registered Nurse License

+ Preferred experience with pediatrics or cardiac patients

+ BOEE Statement of Professional Recognition

TECHNICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND ABILITIES:

+ Highly developed oral and written communication skills.

+ Ability to build relationships effectively and professionally with families and students.

+ Experience developing and implementing curriculum.

+ Physical ability to handle frequent sitting, stooping, bending, pushing, pulling, and moving throughout the room.

+ Proven ability to maintain a safe and studious classroom environment.

+ Demonstrated ability to develop and implement age-appropriate curriculum.

+ Ability to collaborate within the school and instructional setting.

+ Demonstrated desire to be a life-long learner.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Listed below are the essential tasks required for this job.

Job Tasks Descriptions

1. Promotes and protects the optimal health status of school-age children

2. Provides health assessments

3. Provides health assessments, observes the child for development and health patterns in making nursing assessment, and identifies abnormal health findings

4. Develops and implements a student health plan

5. Interprets the health status of students to parents and school personnel

6. Initiates referral to parents, school personnel or community health resources for intervention, remediation and follow through.

7. Provides ongoing health counseling with students, parents, school personnel or health agencies

8. Utilizes existing health resources to provide appropriate care of students

9. Maintains, evaluates and interprets cumulative health data to accommodate individual needs of students

10. Plans and implements school health management protocols

11. Develops procedures and provides for emergency nursing management for injuries/illnesses

12. Provides direct health education and health counseling to assist students and families in making decisions on health and lifestyles that affect health

13. Participates in health education directly and indirectly for the improvement of health by teaching persons to become more assertive health consumers and to assume greater responsibility for their own health

14. Serves as a resource person to the school staff members in health instruction

15. Coordinates school and community health activities and serves as a liaison health professional between the home, school and community

16. Acts as a resource person in promoting health careers

17. Engages in research and evaluation of school health services to act as a change agent for school health programs and school nursing practices

Provides consultation in the formation of health policies, goals and objectives for the school district.

18. Where applicable, participates in the IEP plan development

19. Assist with the Medicaid claiming process and do claiming on qualified students

20. Perform other duties as assigned.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING CONDITIONS:

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

Amount of Time

None

Under 1/3

1/3 to 2/3

Over 2/3

Stand

Walk

Sit

Use hands to finger, handle or feel

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

Amount of Time

None

Under 1/3

1/3 to 2/3

Over 2/3

Reach with hands and arms

Climb or balance

Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl

Talk

Hear

Taste

Smell

WEIGHT AND FORCE DEMANDS

Amount of Time

None

Under 1/3

1/3 to 2/3

Over 2/3

Up to 10 pounds

Up to 25 pounds

Up to 50 pounds

Up to 100 pounds

More than 100 pounds

MENTAL FUNCTIONS

Amount of Time

None

Under 1/3

1/3 to 2/3

Over 2/3

Compare

Analyze

Communicate

Copy

Coordinate

Instruct

Compute

Synthesize

Evaluate

Use Interpersonal Skills

Compile

Negotiate

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Amount of Time

None

Under 1/3

1/3 to 2/3

Over 2/3

Wet or humid conditions (non-weather)

Work near moving mechanical parts

Work in high, precarious places

Fumes or airborne particles

Toxic or caustic chemicals

Outdoor weather conditions

Extreme cold (non-weather)

Extreme heat (non-weather)

Risk of electrical shock

Work with explosives

Risk of radiation

Vibration

VISION DEMANDS

REQUIRED TO PERFORM ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB

No special vision requirements

Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less)

Distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more)

Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors)

Peripheral vision

Depth perception

Ability to adjust focus

NOISE LEVEL

Level of noise typical in the work environment for this job

Very quiet

Quiet

Moderate

Loud

Very loud

Boone Community School District is an equal opportunity employer. If you have questions or a grievance, contact the BCSD Equity Coordinator Mrs. Jill Janes, [email protected], at BCSD, 500 7th Street, Boone, Iowa 50036; (515) 433-0750.